As new regulations have triggered a wave of change across the commodity trading landscape, many energy firms have found themselves relying heavily on consultants to equip them with the tools and strategies...

Energy markets have always been driven by regulation to some extent, but over the past few years, the impact of regulation on energy firms has intensified sharply.
Nowhere is this truer than in Germany...

The G-20 had hoped the reporting of OTC derivatives trades would give regulators an opportunity to spot the build-up of systemic risk. But domestic reporting requirements, a lack of standard data fo...

A quant at Citi has revived debate about the changing nature of the profession (www.risk.net/2417747). The scope is narrower, he claims; the job has been dumbed down, and today's quants are little more than programmers. Is he right?